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CFP: Print Quarterly: Follow up on Skin as Matrix conference

We hope you enjoyed our (primarily) tongue-in-cheek post of 1 April 2016 (see below). Although there may not be much mileage in topics such as 'Pushing the Boundaries: Expanding Waistlines and the Tattoo', nor are we currently planning a conference for 2017, we are delighted with the responses we received (some cheeky, some serious).

We do also want to emphasize that Print Quarterly welcomes submissions based on a broad understanding of what constitutes printmaking and those arts that draw from it. The relationship between tattoos and printmaking might indeed be a viable area of enquiry. Moreover, Print Quarterly is open to artistic traditions throughout the world.

Following in the footsteps of museums interpreting the material through exhibitions such as 'Engraving Prestige: Hand Tattoo of Paiwan', Print Quarterly intends to fully engage, hosting a conference in 2017 that aims to act as a crucial interpolation in the ongoing dialogue between tattoos and aesthetic studies, envisaged here in an historical and transcultural perspective from the earliest known human artistic manifestations to the present day.

Outstanding papers will be considered for publication in the Journal.

We would welcome any kind of contextualized approach that permeates frontiers and proposes to analyse the various practices through which this art form is constructed and contested and look forward to exploring the dynamic nature of this discursive field.